Men of Concord, (painting).

Men of Concord, (painting).

Wyeth, Newell Convers, 1882-1945, painter.

Men of Concord, (painting).

38 3/4 x 32 in.

(Lower right:) N.C.Wyeth signed

Illustration depicting a group of men gathered in the shade of a large tree, while a young man reads aloud from a newspaper. All the men focus their attention on the reader, save one man who turns around to stare at the viewer, a pipe held in his right hand, and his left hand resting behind his back.

Literature -- Thoreau -- Men of Concord

Figure group -- Male

Landscape -- Massachusetts -- Concord

Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading

Object -- Written Matter -- Newspaper

Brandywine River Museum, P. O. Box 141, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania 19317 Accession Number: 80.3.37

Illustration for the cover of Henry David Thoreau's Men of Concord and Some Others as Portrayed in the Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Francis H. Allen (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1936).

"Brandywine River Museum: Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989" Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991, pg. 215.

"Brandywine River Museum: Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989" Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991, pg. 215.

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